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There is a good deal of rape in naturalist fiction. But what is presented as an inevitable fact of life for women does not lead to actual stories in most narratives. Unlike the anecdotes, melodrama, serialized novels and romance fiction of the nineteenth century, naturalism offsets the pathetic and the dramas that characterize the literature of rape. The issue, in fact, is to present it as a “shared history”, whose conditions and reasons are rooted in deterministic explanations which tend, finally, to subtract rape from scandal. Zola, however, through his own specific development, discovers during the course of the Rougon-Macquart a certain taste for scandal and “dramatic” rape, which he attempts to formulate and evaluate in sometimes risqué storylines.
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The present article proposes to examine the representation of characters of Latin origin in two Quebec novels, with special emphasis on the Latin-American girl. We focus on this figure, which has received little attention, because it resides at the confluence of the gender and race relations which, together with class relations in particular, divide the continent as a whole. By analyzing Soudain le Minotaure [Suddenly the minotaur] (2002) by Marie-Hélène Poitras and Quelque part en Amérique [Somewhere in America] (2012) by Alain Beaulieu, we aim to determine if these figures reflect bias and correspond to certain myths historically associated with the representation of the “señorita.”
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Critics readily insist on the epic and choral dimension of Maylis de Kerangal's novels. Their casts of characters are certainly manifold, captured during collective action whether playful, material, medical or aesthetic. Setting aside this already identified aspect, the present study rather concerns itself with secondary personages, briefly outlined, but nonetheless in charge of figuring a human depth in confrontation with significant historical and social realities. These quick yet powerful sketches, based upon the art of dynamic description – of which we will point out the very distinctive writing – represents, beyond the diegesis, the greatest strength of the texts: that is where arises most vividly the fundamentally anthropological dimension of a work most attentive to human substance.
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The political and economic developments of the Sino-African relationship are no longer to be demonstrated. However, what about its insertion in the long course history of intercontinental exchanges ? The two works I intend to study – Dai Sijie's L'Acrobatie aérienne de Confucius (2009) and Paul Kawczak's Ténèbre (2020) – offer to contribute to filling this gap. Coming from the contemporary francophone field (francophone literature from China for Dai Sijie, from Quebec for Paul Kawczak), these two novels, both characterized by a baroque aesthetic, focus on the creation of a Sino-African literary history, which associates eroticism, sometimes pushed to the most extreme and grotesque, and intertextuality. The Sino-African relationship thus allows us to sketch the outline of an « integrated literary history » (Anthony Mangeon, 2015), in which texts fit together as much as bodies.
Keywords: histoire littéraire intégrée, Chinafrique, intertextualité, francophonie chinoise
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SummaryAs a feature of capitalist development, economic migration has historically entailed sex work as one of its components. In the age of globalization, this means a forced choice for many women, as they move from the village to the city in their own countries and across international borders. The present article focuses on the decision making process, the means of migration, and the experience in the urban site, national or international, of those -- the vast majority -- who have not been "trafficked", but have made this forced choice their life strategy. The impact on sex worker migration of customer "migration" in the form of sex tourism is discussed, along with the other economic and cultural factors.
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The following analysis aims to provide an overview of the contemporary criminalization of sexual crimes by the international criminal law field. By approaching various disciplines, we attempt to provide an answer to this painful but fundamental question: ‘why rape during war?' We then present the rich jurisprudential history of the consideration of sexual crimes by international criminal law, from the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg (1945) to the International Criminal Court (ICC) (1998) – from a critical viewpoint. We look at the specific case of Ukraine and the way in which international criminal law has been mobilized – discursively and effectively – from the very first moments of the February 2022 invasion. We conclude by studying how the conflict could become a “major lever for the field of international criminal law”3 and the specificities of this particular judicial momentum.